Questões de Concursos Inglês

Leia o texto para responder à questão.

Segundo Kramasch (2024), o conceito de competência intercultural recebeu um novo significado por meio do uso de comunicação mediada por computadores (CMC), com o objetivo de promover a interação na L2 entre falantes nativos e não nativos da língua e entre falantes não nativos, e de capacitá-los a ter acesso a e manipular ambientes culturais não nacionais.

O acesso direto a falantes da L2 e a imersão cultural promovida pela CMC realçam a ilusão do imediatismo semiótico e a autenticidade cultural. Entretanto, não conduziu, necessariamente, a uma exploração profunda de diferenças culturais. A comunicação intercultural online enfatizou a participação em comunidades online, a colaboração, a solução conjunta de problemas e o desenvolvimento de identidades híbridas que tanto independem das coações sociais do mundo real, quanto ficam sujeitas às pressões sociais e às coações coletivas das comunidades online. Não é à toa que há um número crescente de linguistas aplicados que estão ávidos a trazer a história, a memória e os aspectos subjetivos da aprendizagem de línguas de volta à sala de aula, bem como uma reflexão sobre o significado de operar entre línguas, a partir do background cultural do próprio indivíduo.

(Kramasch, C. 2024. Adaptado)

Read the text to answer question.

Robots are writing more of what we read on the internet. And artificial intelligence (AI) writing tools are becoming freely available for anyone, including students, to use.

In a period of rapid change, there are enormous ethical implications for post-human authorship — in which humans and machines collaborate. The study of AI ethics needs to be central to education as we increasingly use machinegenerated content to communicate with others.

AI robot writers, such as GPT-3 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) take seconds to create text that seems like it was written by humans. In September, 2020 GPT-3 wrote an entire essay in The Guardian to convince people not to fear artificial intelligence. As recently as 2019, this kind of technology seemed a long way off. But today, it is readily available.

Of course, there’s the issue of cheating on essays and other assignments. School and university leaders need to have difficult conversations about what constitutes “authorship” and “editorship” in the post-human age. We are all (already) writing with technological devices, even just via spelling and grammar checkers.

(https://theconversation.com. Adaptado)

Read the text to answer question.

We were on a flight to Tokyo, and we’d been flying for about five hours. I was reading a book, and my wife was watching a film when suddenly we heard a very loud noise. It sounded as if an engine had exploded. The pilot didn’t tell us what had happened until half an hour later.

Source: OXENDEN, C.; LATHAM-KOENIG, C. English

File Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book - Third

Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

READ TEXT II AND ANSWER THE FOUR QUESTION THAT FOLLOW IT.

TEXT IV

Assessment for Young Learners in the English Language Classroom

All forms of assessment have an impact on school and classroom culture – it can drive what is taught and how. The process and outcomes of assessment also affect both the teachers’ and the learners’ understanding and experience of learning. Our most common understanding of assessment is that it summarises attainment. This has an especially strong focus in education where summative assessments, the achievement tests that typically occur at the end of an instructional programme, have guided the emphasis in curricula. In true terms, however, assessment is the process of collecting and interpreting evidence to make judgements about a learner’s performance. Thinking about the process in this way allows teachers to gather evidence as an ongoing activity during the learning programme and, as a result, to identify strengths and weaknesses that inform future classroom content. This formative approach, where assessment forms part of the learning cycle, is able to capture more detailed and nuanced data about a learner’s performance than the broader brush stroke of a summative score and consequently supports deeper and more consequential learning. More importantly, there is an influential argument that, in education, we should not even be doing assessment unless it has an impact on learning, and this goes to the heart of the purposes of assessment.

Adapted from: https://www.cambridge.org/us/files/9516/0217/6403/ CambridgePapersInELT_AssessmentForYLs_2020_ONLINE.PDF

Read the following text to answer the question.

Written by Virginia Woolf, the following letter expresses her fear of another mental breakdown and her decision to take her own life.

“Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that – everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. V.”